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In his history of the facelift, E. Haiken tells how the actress Fanny Brice in 1923 caused amazement of the American public to appear in public after visibly tweaked the nose.

Forty years later, when singer Barbara Streisand goes first on stage, the debate audience, as Haiken, had changed: the strange thing was that Streisand-hooked-nose feature had not tweaked the nose. It was popular as :  cosmetic surgery, however, was not yet known that the business of beauty would have unlimited potential.

The date of 1923 is not responding at random. The ravages of the Great War had a side effect: the medicine had to answer so many wounded soldiers who seek to rebuild their tissues to return to their normal lives.

However, this part military origin of cosmetic surgery is overlapped with a phenomenon even more decisive: the passing of a puritanical society to a secular, consumerist culture. Add the contribution of psychology in 1927, Adler first speaks of “inferiority complex”, a concept known enormous roots and involved, among other things, the notion that physical malformations fed a complex which in turn, triggered other dysfunctions of psychological.